UC Davis College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Department of Land, Air and Water Resouces

Minghua Zhang


Professor of Environmental & Resource Science

Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
University of California Davis

Office: 131 Veihmeyer Hall

Email: mhzhang@ucdavis.edu

Phone: 530-752-4953   Fax: 530-752-5262

Education:

  • Ph.D. - University of California-Davis. 1993. Ecology. 
  • M.S. - University of California-Davis. 1990. Quantitative Agronomy
  • B.S. Zhejiang University. Hangzhou, China. 1982. Agronomy

Research Interest:

GIS database development. Spatial analysis of groundwater leaching and surface water runoff as affected by pesticide applications in agriculture fields using GIS. Integrated solute transport modeling in GIS. Remote sensing satellite and aerial photography applications in precision farming.

Recent Publications:

  • Zhang, M., Campos, J., Zhan, Y. & Grieneisen, M. L. Sulfur management and miticide use in winegrapes grown in California. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 1-11 (2012).
  • Liu, X., Luo, Y., Zhang, D., Zhang, M. & Liu, C. Recent changes in pan-evaporation dynamics in China. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L13404 (2011).
  • Grieneisen, M. L. & Zhang, M. The current status of climate change research. Nature Climate Change 1, 72-73 (2011).
  • Zhang, X. & Zhang, M. Modeling effectiveness of agricultural BMPs to reduce sediment load and organophosphate pesticides in surface runoff. Science of The Total Environment 409, 1949-1958 (2011).
  • Li, W., Qin, Z., Zhang, M. & Browde, J. An index method to evaluate growers's pesticide use for identifying on-farm innovations and effective alternative pest management strategies: a case study of winegrape in Madera County, California. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 12, 226-246 (2011).
  • Luo, Y. & Zhang, M. Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment of Sediment-Associated Pyrethroids in an Agricultural Watershed. PLoS ONE 6, e15794 (2011).
  • Luedeling, E. et al. Climate change effects on walnut pests in California. Global Change Biology 17, 228-238 (2011).
  • Deng, H. et al. Analysis of the Metabolic Utilization of Carbon Sources and Potential Functional Diversity of the Bacterial Community in Lab-Scale Horizontal Subsurface-Flow Constructed Wetlands. Journal of Environment Quality 40, 1730 (2011).
  • Zhang, M. & Xu, J. Nonpoint Source Pollution, Environmental Quality, and Ecosystem Health in China: Introduction to the Special Section. Journal of Environment Quality 40, 1685 (2011).
  • Mei, K. et al. Optimizing water quality monitoring networks using continuous longitudinal monitoring data: a case study of Wen-Rui Tang River, Wenzhou, China. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 13, 2755 (2011).
  • Liu, X., Zheng, H., Zhang, M. & Liu, C. Identification of dominant climate factor for pan evaporation trend in the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geographical Sciences 21, 594-608 (2011).
  • Gatzke, S. E. et al. Aggregation Strategies for SSURGO Data: Effects on SWAT Soil Inputs and Hydrologic Outputs. Soil Science Society of America Journal 75, 1908 (2011).

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